Catarrhal

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rheumatism

...et Pleuritide Dorsali; 1642). He used the word to describe a form of muscular rheumatism and to describe what is now known as rheumatic fever. Baillou knew that a respiratory disease called catarrh, which is associated with inflammation of the upper respiratory tract, was connected to rheumatism and that rheumatism was systemic in nature, affecting many parts of the body. The rheumatic...